Description
| Product ID: | 9781442225879 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | The First Freedoms and America's Culture of Innovation |
| Subtitle: | The Constitutional Foundations of the Aspirational Society |
| Authors: | Author: Narain D. Batra |
| Page Count: | 255 |
| Subjects: | Communication studies, Communication studies, Cultural studies, Media studies, Constitutional and administrative law: general, Cultural studies, Media studies, Constitutional & administrative law, USA |
| Description: | The First Freedoms and the American Culture of Innovation is a thorough examination of the history of American innovation and how our society could not have progressed as far and as fast as it did without its fundamental freedoms. Batra concludes that free speech is the energy that drives American aspiration. This is a book about the dynamics of the aspirational society. It explores the boundaries of permissible thought--deviations and transgressions that create constant innovations. When confronted with a problem, an innovative mind struggles and brings forth something distinctive--new ideas, new inventions, and new programs based on unconventional approaches to solve the problem. But this can be done only if the culture creates large breathing spaces by leaving people alone, not as a matter of state generosity but as something fundamental in being an American. Consequently, the Constitutional mandate of “Congress shall make no law…” has encouraged fearless speech, unrestrained thought, and endless experimentation leading to newer developments in science, technology, the arts, and not least socio-political relations. Most of all, the First Freedoms liberate the mind from irrational fears and encourage an environment of divergent thinking, non-conformity, and resistance to a collective mindset. The First Freedoms encourage Americans to be iconoclastic, to be creatively crazy, to be impure, thus, enabling them to mix and re-mix ideas to design new technologies and cultural forms and platforms, anything from experimental social relations and big data explorations to electing our first black president. |
| Imprint Name: | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Publisher Name: | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2013-10-18 |
